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Topic: Updates to the forums coming (Read 14610 times)

Just so everyone expects it, I'll be updating the forums to the latest version of phpBB shortly. Knowing phpBB, there may be some snags. Hopefully not major ones.

More importantly, I'll also be replacing phpBB with Simple Machines Forums in the near future. This will provide us with a lot more features. We will be able to do more stuff with moderation, and implementing modifications (and removing them!) will be a LOT easier. Things may look a lot different but all of your information will still be there. Your old threads, your profiles, everything will import over.

Consider this a public input session. Any questions? Concerns with SMF? I'll even entertain alternative recommendations.

Can we consider a chat room? We can't control moderation, but think of the amount of staff and volunteer coordination that could happen. I believe our attendees will behave, and if not, we can come up with a plan of action.

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Can we consider a chat room? We can't control moderation, but think of the amount of staff and volunteer coordination that could happen. I believe our attendees will behave, and if not, we can come up with a plan of action.

I don't know the logistics of it, but we could probably do the java type irc chat here on the site, then anyone else that knows irc can just jump on irc.

I don't know a whole lot about forum software unfortunately, but I am pretty sure vb3 has a chat room feature that actually allows your forum moderators and the like to be able to moderate the chat (can easily do the same with irc) when they are there.

Just to make sure, when you say our profiles would be carried over, you include our post counts in that as well right? I'd hate to have passed 1000 posts just to lose them all........... again. I know I speak for the people with post rankings above my own on this point.

Also, the subject of user groups. It was said before that we aren't big enough to warrant them, does that opinion still stand?

You mean Pocky Club? It was never that they weren't big enough, it's more that we would prefer they be used for official purposes, primarily assigning forum permissions. For example, General Staff are General Staff so they can have access to the private staff forums, which as staff they should have access to.

As a word of warning, we are doing some stuff, like right now. So if the forums go bonk, sorry.

Update: if it was going to fail, it would have now. Our database server is currently chugging away converting our database over to the new system.

2nd update: conversion is done, and no damage to our existing forum. We now have an exported copy of the forum to work with and investigate what we can do with (and if anyone's posts got lost, so far it looks like they haven't.)